Factors influencing physicians' knowledge sharing on web medical forums.
Health Informatics J
; 22(3): 594-607, 2016 09.
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| ID: mdl-25888432
ABSTRACT
Web medical forums are relatively unique as knowledge-sharing platforms because physicians participate exclusively as knowledge contributors and not as knowledge recipients. Using the perspective of social exchange theory and considering both extrinsic and intrinsic motivations, this study aims to elicit the factors that significantly influence the willingness of physicians to share professional knowledge on web medical forums and develops a research model to explore the motivations that underlie physicians' knowledge-sharing attitudes. This model hypothesizes that constructs, including shared vision, reputation, altruism, and self-efficacy, positively influence these attitudes and, by extension, positively impact knowledge-sharing intention. A conventional sampling method and the direct recruitment of physicians at their outpatient clinic gathered valid data from a total of 164 physicians for analysis in the model. The empirical results support the validity of the proposed model and identified shared vision as the most significant factor of influence on knowledge-sharing attitudes, followed in descending order by knowledge-sharing self-efficacy, reputation, and altruism.
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MEDLINE
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Médicos
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Conocimientos, Actitudes y Práctica en Salud
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Difusión de la Información
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Medios de Comunicación Sociales
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
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2016
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Article